Helping Patients

Month: August 2015

Albert Cyprys has been skateboarding for years, and he enjoys the opportunity to ride throughout the five boroughs of New York City. New York has several excellent hot spots for skateboarders and those seeking unique parks and recreational areas. Skateboarding requires extreme coordination and experience but can be enjoyed by anyone. Wearing protective gear can save lives, make no mistake about it. In a city environment, riders see many unique dangers and sometimes, they don’t see them coming. Wearing a helmet, elbow pads, and kneepads can be very helpful in extreme situations, but even just wearing a helmet can help save your life in a serious accident.

If you plan to do any advanced skateboarding jumps or aerial tricks, it is important to have a good grasp of skateboarding basics. The adage of “practice makes perfect” truly applies to skateboarding. Skateboarding is a sport that requires strong instincts, unique strength, balance and agility and often fearlessness.

Skateboarding can be an easy and cost-effective way to get around town is also a fairly simple and fast method for commuting around car traffic. In a city, cars are often at a dead stop so finding quicker paths can be truly beneficial if you’re in a hurry. However, if you have deliveries or packages, you may want to consider a bike or a really big backpack. You may also want to consider the level of exercise required to ride a skateboard, it’s a great way to stay in shape while saving time, money and stress. Yup, riding a skateboard is great stress relief.

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina. The school was originally founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, then moved to Durham in 1892. Tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke changed the name to Duke University, in order to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke, in 1924.

The university’s campus encompasses over 8,600 acres, located on three campuses in Durham as well as a marine lab in Beaufort. Duke’s main campus incorporates Gothic architecture with the 210-foot Duke Chapel in the center of the campus’ highest point of elevation. Duke is one of the wealthiest private university in America with $11.4 billion in cash and investments in 2014. Duke spent $993 million in research expenditures in the 2013, ranking eighth in the nation. The University is ranked among the top universities in the country. In 2014, Thomson Reuters named 32 Duke professors to its list of Highly Cited Researchers, making it fourth globally in terms of primary affiliations. Duke’s basketball team has won five NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championships, the most recent in 2015

Erica Desai received both her degree in public health, and went to graduate school for her Master’s at the University of North Carolina. After graduating in 2014, she began working at Duke University Medical Center. She also stays busy outside of the workplace, enjoying a variety of hobbies such as singing and dancing, painting and cooking, running and playing volleyball and spending time with her family and friends. She also likes to travel whenever possible and stay active in her Indian culture.

There is lots of advice out there on how to give a big speech in front of an audience. What are the things that one must consider when writing a speech? The audience for one. So, how can you come up with a great speech that is guaranteed to get applause?

Keep it simple. Sometimes there is a temptation in a speech to cram everything you have to say into a short time. Instead of trying to fit too many points into a speech, try to make your remarks fit the time allotted. If you’ve got five minutes to speak, you shouldn’t have more than three main points.

Start planning in advance whether you have five days notice before your speech or an hour. If you’re trying to narrow down a speech, your planning might consist of coming up with three main points that are targeted at getting everyone’s attention. Another important part of preparing is to rehearse in front of other people at least a few times.

In all of history, I don’t think anyone has ever said, “I wish that speech had been longer.” So try not to run way over the time allotted or ramble. If you’ve run out of time and forgot to touch on a major point, try to sum it up briefly.

When Erica Desai graduated, she had to give a speech at graduation that would sum up their journey into adulthood. “Let us be the best that we can be so that we may fill our lives and the lives of those closest to us with happiness and with pride. We’ve already taken the first step by making it to this ceremony today—now, it’s time to take the next steps in the journey that is our lives and begin to build our futures.”

The Vraj Youth Committee’s main goal is to preserve and nurture the intellectual, spiritual and cultural development of Hindu youth by encouraging service to the community and broadening knowledge of Indian heritage. The group was first established in 2002, and then formally re-established in August of 2005. The first executive board was introduced, which lay way for the future of the Vraj Youth. The committee was able to get past its beginning obstacles and proved itself as a permanent and vital part of the Vraj family.

Vraj is dedicated to promote and protect the Indian culture and heritage within the local youth. They strive to bring awareness to causes and concerns within the community. They devote their time and volunteer efforts at Vraj events; by introducing the first newsletter written by and for Vraj Youth; and by managing and executing various gatherings and programs to unite and encourage Hindu youth in America. As the organization grows, they are constantly looking for ways to be more active and find interested youth to help them accomplish their goals.

Erica Desai is a professional who works in the health care sector. She always had a desire to help others and gets great satisfaction out of making a difference in someone’s life. She is also very active within her community and volunteers for organizations that educate the young adults in the area. She often volunteers at Vraj Camp in Pennsylvania, which helps to broaden the knowledge of Indian heritage to the youth.